cole-trapnell-lab
licence problem
The locfit component is distributed without the README file. The licence it contains says it must be included. Unfortunately it contains a usage restriction which is considered to make it non-free (e.g. by Debian and potential Fedora packagers) and brings the cufflinks distribution under licence terms which are not simply Boost's:
Locfit code, as distributed, should not, and can not, be used to derive meaningful benchmarks, either or the speed or accuracy of algorithms. Anyone wishing to use Locfit in any kind of comparative benchmark study must contact and obtain permission from the Author.
The R package for it on CRAN contains a version with a free licence, but it isn't a drop-in replacement for the bundled one.
I'm also interested in this. This oversight will likely result in Cufflinks to be removed from GNU Guix.
The R package for it on CRAN contains a version with a free licence, but it isn't a drop-in replacement for the bundled one.
The R package does not contain a README, but the R package is by the same original author as the original locfit code, and it is released under the GPL without any additional restrictions.